Overview
- Four members of the Coordination Rurale in Haute-Garonne, including local president Maxime Raud, were convicted Wednesday in Toulouse and received four-month suspended prison terms with fines fully suspended.
- Prosecutors said six January nights of actions cut electricity to about 4,300 homes and involved damage to 73 transformers, with locks and metal pins taken from the equipment.
- The prosecution described a deliberate, collective operation rebuilt from phone-location maps that traced a set driving route over several nights.
- Defense lawyers argued no transformers were broken and said the farmers only switched equipment off during a period when a disease outbreak had prompted bans on tractor protests.
- Enedis is a civil plaintiff seeking roughly €100,000 for losses, and a separate civil hearing is scheduled for November 16, 2027.